Gottlieb heidmann



(No Model.)

G. HEIDMANN. E. HUTTGES 81C. EGEN.

BUTTON.

No. 400,337. A Patented Mar. 26, 1889.

a/I w UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GOTTLIEB HEIDMANN, EMIL HOTTGES, AND CARL EGEN, OF BARMEN, PRUSSIA, GERMANY, ASSIGNORS TO HEIDMANN & HOTTGES, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,337, dated March 26, 1889.

Application filed September 5, 1887. Serial No. 248,870. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, GOTTLIEB HEIDMANN, merchant, subject of the King of Prussia, residing at Barmen, 93 Alleestrasse, Prussia, Germany, and EMIL HoTTGES, merchant, subject of the King of Prussia, residing at Barmen, 32 I-Iaspelerstrasse, Prussia, Germany,, and CARL EGEN, mechanist, subject of the Kingof Prussia, residing at Barmen, 10 Oberdirnerstrasse, Prussia, Germany, have inven ted certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons; and we do hereby declare the followin g to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is atop plan View of our improved button without the covering. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section thereof. Figs. 3 and 4 are like views showing the mode of covering the button. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing a modified construction.

The invention relates to what is known as cloth-covered buttons, and these are usually constructed of two or more parts irrespective of the covering and cloth shank, more generally of two parts-namely, a button head or disk and a retaining or back plate for securing the shank to the disk, the cloth cover being usually secured by bending or upsetting the edge of the button head or disk over the edge of the back-plate and cover to secure the parts of the button together. It has become the practice to furnish the several parts of cloth-covered buttons to consumers to en- The object of this invention is to provide a button the parts of which, except the covering, are already united, and that will require in the application of the cover the upsetting of one of the parts only, so as to avoid the losses and inconveniences above referred to, and also to materially simplify the operation of covering the buttons. The button being complete, with the exception of the cover and the parts thereof secured together, the mere upsetting of one of the said parts is, in fact, simply a change in form of the button-frame. The machines by means of which this change of form is effected are therefore of the very in two sections, Z) and f, if desired; or it may be made of one piece. In the drawings we have shown said plate of two sections-namely, the back-plate b proper, provided with tubular extension I), and a cover-retaining plate,

f, provided with a flaring or dished upperend,

f, and a tubular extension, f provided with a seat-'liangej. As shown, the sleeve or tubular extension f of the cover-retaining plate f encompasses the cloth shank d and serves as a bearing for the back-plate b, that holds the clot-h shank in position on the disk or head a, the edge of which is bent over the edge of said back-plate in the usual manner, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The dimension of the flaring or dished portion f of the cover-retaining 0 plate f relatively to the dimension of the back of the button inside of the bent edge of the button-head is such as to admit of the cover h being readily applied to the button and folded over the bent edge thereof by the fol- 5 lower B, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and so as to avoid all liability of displacement during the operation of covering. The latter operation is one very simple. The cloth disk h being laid in its place in the machine with the button-frame thereon, the follower is depressed, the follower B first folding the cloth cover over the back of the button, when its further downward motion is arrested. The follower D, next coming in contact with the dished or flaring portionf of the cloth-retaining plate, upsets the same upon the cloth,the edge of said plate and the cloth cover being forced under (or approximately so) the bent edge of the button-head, the parts being thus securely fastened together.

There is, as deseribed,but one operation in the completion or covering of the button, and, if desired, the flaring or dished portion f of plate f may have a toothed or serrated edge to better hold the cloth cover.

Having described our invention, what We claim is- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a blank for cloth-covered buttons, consisting of a button head or disk provided with an up turned peripheral flange, a cloth shank, and a dished or outwardly-flaring cloth-retaining plate, f, said parts being permanently assembled for the reception of the cloth cover, substantially as described.

As an improved article of manufacture,

a button-frame for cloth-covered buttons, eomprising the herein-described button head or disk, a cloth shank, a shank-retaining plate, and a cloth-cover-retaining plate, said parts being all united together, as described, and ready for the reception and securing thereto of the cloth covering through the medium of the cover-retaining plate, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

The herein-described button-frame, consisting of abutton head or disk, a cloth shank, and a shank-retaining plate secured to the disk by upsetting the edges thereof over the edges of said plate, in combination with the dished or flaring cover-retaining plate or disk 7, connected with the other elements of the button-frame, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We aflix. our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

GOTTLIEB HEI'DMANN. EMIL HOTTIG'ES. CARL EGEN. \Vitnesses:

GEORGE Keen, EWALD L. LINHOFF. 

